Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Fix to recursion protection for 5.15

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Oct 21 2021 - 02:37:08 EST


On Wed, 2021-10-20 at 20:27 -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 8:16 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Generally, a tool like b4 should be able to create a list of any
> > email addresses in a thread linked commit.
>
> I really think Cc lines are very useful.
>
> That said, they are *more* useful when they are thought about, than
> when they are automated.
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> I will, for example, strive to put the people who _participated_ in
> some discussion as the "Cc" list - they may not have acked a patch, or
> reviewed it, but they might have piped up in the discussion, and that
> probably merits them then knowing about any problems it causes.

Which is exactly what "thread linked commit" attempted to convey.